Mount MacArthur

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Mount MacArthur
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height 1450  m
location South Georgia
Coordinates 54 ° 28 '38 "  S , 36 ° 17' 29"  W Coordinates: 54 ° 28 '38 "  S , 36 ° 17' 29"  W
Mount MacArthur (South Georgia)
Mount MacArthur

The Mount MacArthur is a turn 1450  m high mountain on South Georgia in the South Atlantic . It rises 3 km north-northeast of Mount Kling and 4.7 km east-northeast of Nordenskjöld Peak at the head end of the Heaney Glacier .

The South Georgia Survey took surveys between 1951 and 1957. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 2006 after the British sailor Ellen MacArthur (* 1976).

Web links

  • McArthur, Mount . Entry in the database of the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (English)